TY - BOOK AU - Stevens,Susan T. AU - Conant,Jonathan TI - North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam T2 - Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia SN - 9780884024088 AV - DT171 .N67 2016 U1 - 961/.022 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection KW - Vandals KW - Africa, North KW - History KW - Congresses KW - International relations KW - fast KW - Islam KW - gnd KW - To 647 KW - 647-1517 KW - Relations KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Byzantinisches Reich KW - Nordafrika KW - Empire byzantin KW - rero KW - Empire islamique KW - Maghreb KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft N1 - Papers originally presented at the seventieth Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Symposium, "Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic North Africa, ca. 500-800" (27-29 April 2012); Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: re-imagining Byzantine Africa; Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan P. Conant --; Procopius's Vandal war : thematic trajectories and hidden transcripts; Anthony Kaldellis --; Gelimer's slaughter : the case for late Vandal Africa; Andy Merrills --; The Saharan Berber diaspora and the southern frontiers of Byzantine North Africa; Elizabeth Fentress and Andrew Wilson --; The Islamic conquest and the defense of Byzantine Africa : reconsiderations on campaigns, conquests, and contexts; Walter E. Kaegi --; Carthage in transition : from late Byzantine city to medieval villages; Susan T. Stevens --; The transformation of ancient land- and cityscapes in early medieval North Africa; Philipp von Rummel --; The contribution of medieval Arabic sources to the historical geography of Byzantine Africa; Mohamed Benabbès --; From Vandal Africa to Arab Ifriqiya : tracing ceramic and economic trends through the fifth to the eleventh centuries; Paul Reynolds --; Regio dives in omnibus bonis ornata : the African economy from the Vandals to the Arab conquest in the light of coin evidence; Cécile Morrisson --; Sanctity and the networks of empire in Byzantine North Africa; Jonathan P. Conant --; Beyond spolia : architectural memory and adaptation in the churches of late antique North Africa; Ann Marie Yasin --; Public order, private power, and the politics of the secular : marriage, law, and Christian rhetoric in Vandal Africa; Kate Cooper --; Exegesis and dissent in Byzantine North Africa; Leslie Dossey --; Sounds from a silent land : the Latin poetry of Byzantine North Africa; Gregory Hays --; Byzantine and early Islamic Africa, ca. 500-800 : concluding remarks; Peter Brown ER -